Aviation Sr. Program Director

Parsons; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons in Fort Lauderdale, FL seeks an Aviation Senior Program Director to lead a team delivering large-scale aviation projects. You will oversee all phases from planning to execution, ensuring on-schedule completion within budget while meeting contractual obligations.

The role requires proven senior program management experience in aviation or major infrastructure, strong leadership, and the ability to coordinate with clients, subcontractors, and regulatory agencies.

Qualifications

• Requires strong leadership and excellent communication abilities.
• Significant program/project management experience in aviation or large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience directing multi-disciplinary teams and managing budgets.

Responsibilities

• Reports to the Aviation Sector Manager.
• Acts as the Company representative with the client and selected subcontractors during the program execution.
• Identify, assess and mitigate technical, contractual, schedule and cost risks with emphasis on preventing claims and disputes.
• Provide an engineering perspective for strategy meetings with client managers and legal counsel regarding project history and risks.
• Negotiate changes to the scope of work with the client and key subcontractors.
• Collaborate with Business Development to market and secure additional work with clients.
• Responsible for following up on instructions and commitments associated with the program.
• Participates in negotiations with regulatory agencies and in public meetings in support of clients.
• Oversees establishment of Project Execution Plan, Health and Safety Plan, QA/QC Plan, and other program execution plans.
• Establishes program requirements and monitors drafts and deliverables for adherence.

Skills

Communication

Analytical skills

Management

Job description

Job Description

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Ready to take your engineering and management experience to the next level to work on complex terminal, landside/airside design and construction problems that will have a huge impact on the local community and improve Passenger facility experience at Airports? Parsons is now hiring an Aviation Senior Program Director who can lead a team of professionals overseeing every phase of large-scale aviation projects or programs. Parsons' extensive experience in Aviation Capital project delivery, combined with your significant management and technical experience, will propel your career forward with opportunity for advancement with top performance.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in diverse, collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people's quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers' visions-and to help them see new possibilities.

Parsons is looking for a talented Aviation Senior Program Director to join our team! We need our Aviation Senior Program Director to be versatile as well as have exceptional communication, analytical and management skills. In this role you plan, direct, supervise, and control the execution of all business, technical, and administrative functions of the assigned project. You will assign responsibility for executing project plans to key stakeholders after careful assessment of how to utilize their qualifications and strengths. We need our Senior Program Directors to provide input to performance reviews and development plans for subordinates.

Provides direction and management for every phase of significant aviation (landside and airside) projects or programs to assure on-schedule completion within or below budget and in accordance with contractual obligations. The Aviation Program Director must be capable of managing a project or program valued at a minimum of $500 million in total installed cost. The project or program requiring company representation at this level may be one large project or multiple smaller projects of lesser total installed cost. Prior experience must include significant project management or construction management assignments at the Senior Program Director level. Experience should also include operations management of personnel.

Relocation or frequent travel to project locations will be required.

Specific Responsibilities

• Reports to the Aviation Sector Manager.


• Acts as the Company representative with the client and selected subcontractors during the program execution.


• Identify, assess and mitigate technical, contractual, schedule and cost risks with particular emphasis on preventing contractor claims, minimizing disputes and avoiding potential litigation through sound engineering judgement, robust project controls and disciplined contract management.


• Provide an engineering perspective for strategy meetings with client managers and legal counsel regarding project history, documentation and emerging risks.


• Negotiate changes to the scope of work with the client and key subcontractors.


• Collaborate with Business Development to market and secure additional work with clients.


• Responsible for following up on instructions and commitments associated with the program.


• Participates in negotiations with regulatory agencies and in public meetings in support of clients.


• Oversees establishment of Project Execution Plan, Health and Safety Plan, Quality Assurance/Quality Control Plan, and other program execution plans required.


• Establishes the program requirements for all areas of the project and monitors the draft and final deliverables for adherence to these criteria.


• Responsible for the development and distribution of timely project status reports on cost and schedule progress of the project to all members of t